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Gaby Del Valle

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    Is it safe to travel with your phone right now?

    What are your rights? The answer: it depends.

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    Mahmoud Khalil’s habeas case is getting moved to New Jersey.

    A New York federal judge transferred Khalil’s petition to New Jersey, where the court will determine whether to order Khalil’s release from an ICE detention center in Louisiana.

    The government previously argued that the New York court didn’t have jurisdiction over Khalil’s case.

    Jurisdiction is paramount: if Khalil is released from detention and allowed to return to New York, he may face a friendlier immigration court than if he’s detained Louisiana.

    The Trump administration is coming for student protesters

    Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest reveals the Kafkaesque nightmare that awaits those arrested by ICE.

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    Trump is bringing back McCarthyism to go after Mahmoud Khalil

    The current administration wants to go after protesters using an obscure Cold War-era statute.

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    The disappeared Columbia student is the start of a surveillance nightmare

    Mahmoud Khalil is a legal permanent resident. That didn’t stop ICE.

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    Mass deportation? There’s an app for that.

    Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is rolling out a new app, CBP Home, with an “Intent to Depart” feature targeted at immigrants. Per a CBP press release, the app gives undocumented immigrants and those whose humanitarian parole has been revoked “an orderly and defined voluntary process” to let the government know their plans to return to their country of origin.

    DHS says immigrants must use the app in compliance with Trump’s executive order requiring all undocumented immigrants to register with the federal government. It’s also a clear attempt to intimidate people into leaving the country, since ICE doesn’t have the ability to arrest, detain, and deport all of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US.

    The app isn’t entirely new. It used to be called CBP One, and under Biden, migrants used it to sign up for asylum interviews at the US-Mexico border.

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    Marco Rubio will use AI to revoke student visas of pro-Palestine protesters.

    The new State Department program, called “Catch and Revoke,” will use AI to review the social media accounts of tens of thousands of students who are in the US on visas, Axios reports. State Department sources tell Axios that officials plan on combing through internal databases to see if any international students were arrested in pro-Palestine demonstrations since October 2023 — and that the department is working with the Department of Homeland Security to ensure a “whole of government and whole of authority approach.”

    Rubio, the new Secretary of State, has been calling for the revocation of student visas for pro-Palestine protesters since October 2023.